How much does a lawyer cost?
Lawyers are not known to be a cheap pleasure - and it can be difficult to state exactly what professional legal help costs. However, you can usually expect a professional and skilled lawyer to charge between DKK 1,000 and DKK 2,500 per hour.
The Danish lawyers are gathered in several different organisations, including the Bar Association, but there is still free price formation. This means that a lawyer himself is the master of how much or how little he or she wants to charge for his services, but of course it must be within the limits of reasonableness. Nevertheless, it is possible to come up with savings tips and general conditions, including for lawyer's fees.
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As mentioned, the hourly price for Danish lawyers is not fixed, but if you assume that you have to pay between DKK 1,000 and DKK 2,500 per hour to get professional legal help, you are not quite right. This is a price proposal for a lawyer - it is important to keep in mind that a lawyer and a jurist are not the same.
A lawyer is educated in law at a university and has a master's degree in this. A lawyer has that too - and in addition to this, the lawyer has also been a clerk at a law office for 3 years. Therefore, the lawyer will often be more specialized and therefore also more competent to solve your particular problem, and thus the lawyer's price will be higher.
A lawyer will usually be more expensive than a lawyer - but on the other hand, a lawyer can also solve the task faster and more satisfactorily than a lawyer who is not nearly as specialized.
If you are possibly interested in choosing a lawyer over a lawyer, make sure to obtain price proposals from both a lawyer and a lawyer - so you are sure that you actually save money by choosing a lawyer.
Fixed lawyer prices
Lawyers in Denmark have increasingly started to use fixed prices for certain services, such as advice on home purchases and the creation of wills. Here you can get the final price already before the lawyer starts his work.
Examples of the above services include:
- Creation of wills – typically around DKK 3,000.
- Housing lawyer advice and document assistance - typically from DKK 5-10,000.
- Divorce lawyer advice and document assistance - typically DKK 2-5,000.
The fixed price is of course on the condition that it is a standardized procedure such as the creation of a will. If you need a lawyer for a unique case, it will often be impossible to specify a fixed price to start with, which is why you have to take the hourly wage as it comes.
You can also run the risk that the price for the task will increase. You can get a price of e.g. DKK 1,500 for the establishment of an ApS, but do you also need advice from the lawyer for tax advice, advice on alternative company and business forms, help with the establishment of a holding company, etc. the price will quickly rise. It is therefore recommended that you settle with your lawyer exactly what you want advice on.
Why do lawyers cost so much?
The hourly wage for a lawyer is higher than most - and this is due, among other things, to the following:
It takes a minimum of 8 years to become a lawyer - and often more. A 3-year legal bachelor's degree followed by a 2-year master's degree, after which the law graduate must have an additional 3 years as a paralegal in a law firm. Few other programs take 8 years to complete – and often it also takes longer, as very few lawyers take all 8 years in a row.
Lawyers are traditionally associated with very serious circumstances. A lawyer is not contacted for fun, but when a person has died, been injured, when a house needs to be bought, a will needs to be written or the like. Therefore, customers also want high professionalism from lawyers for such serious matters, which has meant that lawyers have had large and expensive offices and great demands on secretaries and other employees throughout the ages. All together something that increases lawyer prices.
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